[Leps-l] Larva Identification, Central Virginia

[Hugh McGuinness]

The second one looks like Euclea delphinii to me.

Hugh


On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 8:31 PM, David Hamilton Cox <dhcox at nyx.net> wrote:

>
>  I would greatly appreciate any help identifying these two larvae, both
> seen this past summer in Madison County, Virginia.
>
>  1. http://www.nyx.net/~dhcox/larva1.jpg
>
>  Taken on August 30, on catnip, at the parking lot for the Limberlost
> trail in
> Shenandoah National Park. Trying to identify this has had the beneficial
> effect of me finally paying more attention to the "Morphology" section of
> Wagner's field guide. In there he says "The number and relative sizes of
> the
> prolegs are often a clue to a caterpillar's identity." It looks like this
> caterpillar has prolegs on a5 and a6 only. Next time I will know to pay
> more attention to this in the field. In any case I could find nothing that
> looked like this in that guide. It was about 2 inches long, at least.
>
>  2. http://www.nyx.net/~dhcox/larva2.jpg
>
>  Taken on August 29 in my yard. I assume this is a slug caterpillar;
> perhaps
> an early instar of Natada nasoni, Nason's slug? That's the closest match I
> could find in the field guide. It was maybe a third of an inch long.
>
>  Thanks!
>
> -David
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Hugh McGuinness
Washington, D.C.
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